Off to Chemainus with Jason and Damon today to see Uncle Gerald & Aunt Val (And Deeogee). Quite a fun trek! Had dinner then headed up to Nanaimo for a short drop-in at a family gathering with Cousin Wendy. Then back home with a 1.5 hour delay on the Malahat due to an accident. Hunter was quite an angel during the whole trek, what a trooper.



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We took Hunter to Western Speedway for the first time today. It was amazing!!! I think I had more fun but he still enjoyed it a lot. ;-) We arrived at 6ish for the time trials and stayed until almost 10 and the event was only half over when we left. Lots of fun. Mini Van Figure 8s, car jump, mini figure 8s and the main event of a 20 lap bump to pass which had lots of destruction. He was happy once we got him the earmuffs, but got restless (fair enough so) after about 2-2.5 hours. What a time!



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We took Hunt to Beckwith park last night again. It was a lot busier but we still had a lot of fun.

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Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there! We headed back to Saanich Historical Museum for a second time. I think he enjoys it even more every time we go.



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It was the 2008 Oak Bay Tea Party and we had a blast. It happens once a year and the parade goes right by our house, so we just have to drag our chairs out front and watch from the lawn. Then there's a midway amusement park that runs for two days down at the beach a few blocks away. It's a pretty fun time and I've been waiting for Hunter to be old enough to really enjoy it all and he definitely was this year.

He even tried a couple of the games. One is a simple Duck-Grab, where you grab bobbing ducks and on the bottom is "S" "M" "L" for the size of your prize. And the other was a fishing one where you use your magnet pole to grab alligators with magnets on them and also the size of the prize on the bottom. He also tried the hammer strength one but since I had to help him with it, no pictures. But here's the spoils, he wanted the pink Princess hammer lol.

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A busy day again. We headed out to the store, then off to Beacon Hill Petting Zoo and then off to Uncle Damon's for a BBQ! Tiring!



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Mother's Day Weekend was great!

Jason took Hunter and I out for dinner and it was so tasty. And we got a free cheesecake on top of that, so what could possibly be better? We also trekked over to Auntie Lolos for a dinner with Dan, Jenna and Co and got to play with classic/vintage Lego, which spurs me to buy massive quantities because man, I miss it like crazy. Hunter loves it, although the small manipulations are still a bit hard and frustrate him.


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Lovely weekend.

We ran out of diapers on Thurs and didn't buy any until this afternoon and somehow made it through with only two accidents. Not too bad! He's refused to try going potty at daycare all of a sudden so I have to use diapers for that but I'm trying to leave him in undies at home and he does so well, even all night at home. It's a frustrating sort of thing as we're just hanging on the last wire of diapers.

We got new shoes, he's now a 6.5-7. They're Lightning McQueen sandals that light up. He's never happy with them at first and yelled and hollered for his "fire truck boots" but he adjusts pretty fast.

Spent yesterday chilling at home and today over at Jason's, so without further adieu...

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Hunter and I managed to simultaneously feel better and get sick with something else over the weekend, ugh! Thankfully this is just a lowly cold and a few sniffles didn't make us back out of Hunter's friend Preston's third birthday on Saturday.



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A day after putting Hunter's new bed together, we had to vacate the house for a few days while some painting was done. What a drag! We went to stay with Jason from Mon to Thurs, it was quite an experience!



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Went to a BBQ over at Damon's yesterday, was fun! Lots of bubble blowing, helicopter chasing, yelling and good food, for us at least. One of these days I'll get a big juicy burger in to that boy.

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Things were back to normal and we did our regular Saturday "dada place" hang out today. It felt so good after a couple crazy work weeks and just nothing really being like it used to be. I picked up some awesome shades for him, isn't he stylin? Also re-mohawked his hair.

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Went over to Jason's tonight! It was also the last lunar eclipse for two years (so, until 2010 sometime). I tried to get a picture of it but it didn't turn out well. It was quite awesome, blood on the moon.


He looks like such a little nerd.

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The moans and joys abound.

We've entered a new phase of separation anxiety where he wants Jason on call 24/7. At least once a day now we have to stop what we're doing and just sit and have some mope time. He sits and whimpers "miss daddy" "I want daddy." So we've been visiting quite a bit and it's been nice. We took him for a walk around the parliament buildings in the evening the other day and it was all lit up. He even got to pet a horse!

Today, Auntie Lolo, Hunter and I took off to find some beach.

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It was off to the Royal BC Museum yesterday, what a blast!! It was the first time Hunter has ever been, and I haven't been in at least 6 or 7 years. A lot has changed!

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This entry actually encompasses a few days and few different trips to the beach. I didn't update or sort my pictures and now I can't remember what days we did which. :-) From somewhere between April 6 and 12th or so.

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